Support for garment hangers



Jan. 17, 1961 A. L. WEIDT SUPPORT FOR GARMENT HANGERS Filed Nov. 23, 1959 Invenio r Qlvin L- Weidt Patented Jan. 3?, 1961 2,968,4tl8 SUPPORT FUR GARMENT HANGERS Alvin L. Weidt, Minneapolis, Minn, 'assignor to Store Equlppers, lino, Minneapolis, Minn a corporation of Minnesota Filed Nov. 23, 1959, Ser. No. 85468 1 (Ilaim. (Cl. 211-87) My invention relates to improvements in supports for garment hangers.

In the retailing of clothing, the garments offered for sale to the consumer are customarily kept in stock hanging on conventional garment hangers of the type having a downwardly opening hook. A sales person attending a customer frequently brings to a sales site a number of garments hung'on hangers. The customer frequently removes her or his own garment in order that she or he may try on one or more of the garments offered for sale.

In this situation, it is desirable to place the customers garment or garments on a hanger or hangers and hang them at the locality of the sales site. Likewise, it is de sirable to hang the hanger-supported garments olfered for sale at such locality. At the same time, it is desirable that the garment or garments offered for sale is or are so hung that it or they will not crush or cause the customers personal garment or garments to be wrinkled.

The present invention provides for the hanging of a customers garment or garments and the garment or garments offered for sale by a sales person at the same location and in such manner that the suspended garments ofiered for sale will tend to gravitate into position clear of the customers personal garments.

An object of my invention is to provide a simple, durable, inexpensive and si-ghtly support for garment hangers adapted efliciently to effect the desiderata aforesaid.

In the drawing, the single figure, denoted Fig. 1, is a perspective view illustrating a support for garment hangers in emobdiment of my invention.

The illustrated support consists of a single length or piece of material of bar-like formation. It may consist of a piece of material which is bent into the shape shown, or it may be cast or molded to provide the various bends in the structure. A desirable form of the invention which I have put into practice is constructed by the heat-bending of a bar of clear plastic material. The single piece A comprising the support shown in the drawing includes an upper mounting reach 10 and a lower mounting reach 11. One end portion of the piece A constitutes said upper mounting reach 10 and that portion of the piece A adjacent its other end constitutes said lower mounting reach 11. These mounting reaches ill, 11 lie in a common plane and are adapted to be backed against a wall or other upright supporting structure, the upper mounting reach 10 and the lower mounting reach 11 having apertures 12 and 13 therein, respectively. These apertures extend from front to back of their respective reaches and are adapted to receive screws (not shown) or other fastening elements to be applied to a supporting structure.

The end portion of the piece A adjacent the lower mounting reach 11 of the support has a bend 14 therein forming an upwardly opening hook 15 extending forwardly from said lower mounting reach 11. This hook 15 of the support is for the reception of a hook or hooks of a garment hanger or hangers bearing the personal garments of a customer to whom garments offered for sale are being shown. A bend 16 in the piece A at the upper end of the lower mounting reach 11 provides a forwardly extending reach or rail 17 which superimposes the hook is of the support, the forward end of said rail 17 being at another bend 18 in said piece A. A garment hanger or hangers bearing the garment or garments being oifered for sale by the sales person is or are hung upon this rail 17. Said rail 17 slopes forwardly downward at a pitch sufiicient to induce forward sliding gravitational movement garment hangers hung thereon so that hangers so supported and bearing the garments being shown to the customer will automatically move into position forwardly clear of the customers personal garments hung on the hook of the support. That portion of the piece A between a bend 19 therein at the lower end of the upper mountin reach 19 and said bend 18 at the forward end'of the rail 17 provides a truss member a for the rail 1.7. Defined in said truss member a between a bend at therein intermediately thereof and the said bend 118 at the forward end of the rail 17 is an upstanding truss element 21 providing a stop which arrests the forward sliding movement of garment hangers hung on said rail 1'7 A second truss element 22 of the truss member (1, extending fore and aft of the support and define between the intermediate bend Zfi in said truss member a and the bend 19 at the lower end of the mounting reach id, is located by the upstanding truss element 21 above the rail 17 at a height thereabove exceeding the length of the downwardly opening hook of a garment hanger so that such hooks may be passed freely over the rail 17 in the hanging of such hangers on said rail and in the removal of such hangers from the rail.

Changes in the specific form of the invention, as herein described, may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new and desired to be protected by Letters Patent is:

A support for garment hangers of the type having a downwardly opening hanger hook, said support consisting of a single piece of material of bar-like formation including therein an upper mounting reach constituted in one end portion of the piece, and a lower mounting reach adjacent the other end portion of the piece, said mounting reaches occupying a common plane and adapted to be backed against a supporting structure, each of said mounting reaches having an aperture therein for the reception of a fastening element adapted to be applied to the supporting structure, said last end portion of the piece having a bend therein forming an upwardly opening hook extending forwardly from said lower mounting reach for the reception of a hanger hook or hooks of a garment hanger or hangers, said piece having relatively spaced bends therein between said mounting reaches defining in the piece a rail in continuation of the lower mounting reach, and a truss member extending from the rail to the upper mounting reach, the rail being adapted to receive the hanger hook or books of a garment hanger or hangers, said rail superimposing and forwardly overreaching said upwardly opening hook of the support, said rail sloping forwardly downward and adapted to induce forward gravitational sliding movement of a garment hanger hung thereon, said truss member including an element rising from the forepart of said rail and constituting a stop to arrest the forward sliding movement of garment hangers hung on said rail.

References ited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS D. 143,825 Kimsey Feb. 12, 1946 D. 161,935 Kaplan Feb. 13, 1951 891,538 Greenman June 23, 1908 2,438,505 Hunt Mar. 30, 1948 

